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  • Jeffrey Gibson: struggle with his American Indian roots

    “If you’d told me five years ago that this was where my work was going to lead,” said Mr. Gibson, gesturing to other pieces, including two beaded punching bags and a cluster of painted drums, “I never would have believed it.” Now 41, he is a member of the Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians and half-Cherokee. But for years, he said, he resisted the impulse to quote traditional Indian art, just as he had rejected the pressure he’d felt in art school to make work that reflected his so-called identity.

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  • New work of Nicholas Hlobo

    For a while, I was worried that Nicholas Hlobo would become a black, gay, Xhosa artist — which, of course, he is.
    The artist, writer and curator Thembinkosi Goniwe has argued that when it comes to discussing the work of black artists, critics tend to use the artist’s biography as a primary point of departure, often to the detriment of the work itself.
    I have also argued that ­ethnicity and tutelage, or the lack thereof, have come to over-determine how we think of artists who are deemed rural and self-taught.

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  • New Museum of Centemporary Art in Yersey City: MANA Contemporary

    JERSEY CITY — MANA Contemporary might be one of the art world’s best-kept secrets. From the outside, at the moment, it looks like what its shell actually is: a cluster of warehouse and factory buildings left over from a grimy industrial age, tucked into the heart of this city.
    But if Eugene Lemay has his way — and as both a businessman and an artist, he has a combination of financial backing and single-mindedness that makes it seem possible — Mana will be an irresistible arts destination within a couple of years.

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